TWELVE RING SYSTEM
046 - CAUGHT!

There was an uneasy feeling in Rome's heart when they reached the Capital.

Rome repeatedly combed around to make sure no one was lurking.

"You look very anxious" asked Milan so caught the look of Rome's anxious face that could not be covered.

"Let's see, I feel like someone's watching us."

Whether this is just the feeling of Rome alone or indeed there is someone watching them, which obviously Rome felt unsettled along the way.

"Just calm down, there's nothing to worry about. We're undercover, aren't we? They certainly cannot know our identity" said Milan calming.

"Hopefully so." As Rome said.

Roma really hope this is just a baseless feeling. If Rome only fantasizes that someone is watching them.

Rome shook her head, trying to drive away the negative thoughts in her head.

"You wait here, I will enter the palace" ordered Palermo Mancini.

The man ordered Rome and the others to wait for him in a corner in the middle of the market in a narrow alley.

The man ordered his men holding the Virgo Star Ring to be with Rome and his friends, while the others went with Palermo into the palace to report.

"Why are you so nervous?" ask the cat Leo when he sees Rome again looking unsettled.

"Let's see, my gut feeling is that more people are watching us."

Rome is not lying. He indeed felt dozens of pairs of middle eyes piercing his back from various directions, and Rome did not know who they were.

This made Rome want to leave the place as soon as possible.

"We better get out of here. And you." Rome pointed to Palermo's men holding the Virgo Star Ring, "tell Palermo if we go home. I don't feel safe in this place."

"Can't, we have to wait here," hold down the Virgo Star Ring again.

"I don't care! I'm leaving this place!" rome began to panic.

"Hey-hey! Calm. We are safe here, no one is watching us" said Milan trying to hold Roma who want to leave.

"No" said the cat Leo. "Roma's right, we're being watched."

Milan straightened his back as soon as he heard the words of the cat Leo.

 Leo's senses can't be ignored. The cat had more sensitive senses than the three of them.

"You ... " Rome accuses Palermo Mancini's men of holding Virgo's star Ring with piercing eyes.

Now, Rome knew the reason why she had felt so many eyes watching them since.

Palermo's men holding Virgo's star Ring put on a sly smile.

"Catch 'em!" exclaim the holder of the Virgo Star Ring.

Suddenly dozens of soldiers came from the roof and the end of the hall besieged Rome and her friends.

Rome rebelled, she cried out and tried to escape with her power.

However, all in vain. His efforts to escape were in vain because the soldier handcuffed the handcuffs of Rome so as not to use spells.

The same thing happened to Milan, and so did Leo.

"You! You traitor!" rome exclaims wrath. He had indeed relaxed his surveillance too much to detect that there was a traitor among them.

"Indeed, and not just me," said Palermo Mancini's men.

Suddenly two other Palermo men also came and told the soldiers to drag Rome and her friends to the palace.

Rome rebelled, while Milan and Tere clamored.

However, no one is bothering them. Their disguises were removed, and Rome and her companions were dragged into the palace with the emperor Salerno De Santis watching from the palace balcony.

"The rebels have been captured, Your Honor."

"Gather them together as one!" the emperor's orders.

The soldiers then gathered them into one including Palermo Mancini who was also captured.

They were lined up one by one before the emperor and their legs kicked and forced to kneel.

Roma glanced at battered Palermo Mancini. His face was bruised and blood was pouring out of his temples, nose, and lips.

The fate of the man was even more terrible than that of Rome. It seems Palermo Mancini did not know that all his men had betrayed him.

Then Rome glanced at the three Palermo men each holding the Ring of the Star, standing side by side with the emperor.

[Strength is at the top. It would easily destroy them, sir]

Rome shook her head at the system's words.

Roma wanted to act and see how far those people were doing all this.

"You people! You betrayed me!" palermo Mancini did not accept it.

All this time he's been fooled.

Three of Palermo Mancini's men were silent in a thousand languages, they were not allowed to speak by the emperor.

"So, what exactly are you planning?" asked the emperor Salerno De Santis intimidatingly.

"To eliminate you!" palermo Mancini is not afraid.

One of the soldiers holding his hand then kicked Palermo in the stomach until the man coughed up a lump of blood.

"So your words are in front of His Majesty!" sentak the soldier.

"Stop. You can torture him later in the cell. Not in front of me. I'm sick of seeing his face" said the emperor. "And you ... So it's your serial killer? Too bad you're still young."

Roma silent. He did not reply and just stared intently at the emperor.

Rome did not feel intimidated by the emperor. Instead, Rome gave a look of resistance.

"Enter them into the cell!"

An order from the emperor to move his soldiers.

Roma and his friends are taken to a special cell that cannot be penetrated by even the Star Ring user.

The cell is coated with a special spell to seal the power of the Star Ring holder.

Rome and her friends were put in a different cell.

Palermo Mancini was placed in a special cell underground.

Without the need to find out Rome can guess that the cell is only intended by people who have made fatal mistakes. Like Palermo Mancini.

Rome took a deep breath. He just stared at the dirty cement floor and glanced at Milan whose cell was right in front of him.

"You okay?" roma asked Milan whose face was swollen because he kept crying.

Milan only nodded briefly without answering.

Roma did not know until when they would be locked up. Will they be here forever? Rome does not know.

The next day, they were taken to the basement one by one to be tortured.

Emperor Salerno De Santis ordered the soldiers to separate the power of the Star Ring from the bodies of Rome and her companions.

However, all of that didn't work because the power of the ring had already fused in their blood.

Rome shouted as the executioners continued to force her body to unleash the power of the Star Ring.

However, no matter how hard they tried, that power was already a part of them.

The breath of Rome gasped. With his consciousness thinning, he glanced towards Milan who had fainted and Leo who was convulsing as he continued to be forced out the power of the Star Ring.

Rome wanted to shout to ask them to stop, but no sound came out.

There was only an indistinct moaning sound coming out from Rome's lips and tears flowing in silence.

"Stop..," said Roma.

Roma really did not want to see his friends end up like this.

Since the executioner did not succeed in unleashing the power of the Star Ring, the executioners surrendered to this day and intend to pass it on tomorrow.

The suffocated Romans were then dragged back to their cells.

In the cell, Rome could hear the screams of Palermo Mancini's voice louder than hers.

Not knowing what the executioners did to the man, Roma did not want to imagine it.

What is clear is that they must have done a terrible thing and Roma did not want that to happen to their friends.

In silence, Roma just stared at the nanar Milan lying helplessly on the floor. And Leo hasn't moved since.

It seems the play is overrated enough.